Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You leave Livingston by crossing the River Almond and entering Mid Calder which was a significant centre in the past , as this was where the old Ayr road met the Edinburgh to Glasgow Turnpike . |
| 2 | Meet 10.30am where the Ridgeway crosses the Ashbury to Lambourn Road . |
| 3 | He led the Bahamas to independence from the United Kingdom in 1973 . |
| 4 | Lafontaine 's nomination had looked almost certain since January , when he led the SPD to victory with an increased majority in the Saarland elections [ see pp. 37197-98 ] . |
| 5 | She caught her usual bus , but instead of getting off at Frankfurter Allee and catching the S-Bahn to Biesdorf , she stayed on it , all the way to Ostkreuz where , like Herr Nordern once before her , she made her way to Ostkreuz Police Station . |
| 6 | Oxfordshire rally driver , Francis Tuthill has won the London to Sydney Car Marathon . |
| 7 | The authors of a new report it commissioned suggest the Oxford to Birmingham stretch of the M40 was badly planned , with little consideration of its long-term implications . |
| 8 | Sally Harrower , Issue Hall , has for some years entered the Edinburgh to St Andrews cycle ride in aid of Lepra . |
| 9 | Thomas Brassey built the Paris to Rouen Railway in the early 1840s and held contracts in fifteen other countries . |
| 10 | Former US President Jimmy Carter and David Peterson , former Premier of the Province of Ontario , Canada , led an international team of 100 foreign observers and testified to the proper and impartial conduct of the election ( whereas previous general elections , repeatedly returning the PNC to power , had been considered seriously flawed ) . |
| 11 | Shortly before 8.10am on December 12 , Mr Alex McClymont , driving the Basingstoke to Waterloo train , noted that the signal was at red . |
| 12 | I was reminded of the black iron horse silhouettes which decorate the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury railway line in England . |
| 13 | Kersey said : ‘ So somebody drove the Mini to Exeter — could it have been anybody other than Inez ? ’ |
| 14 | Situated between the Oxford canal , a 90 mile waterway ( built in the 1780's ) that links the Midlands to Oxford , and the River Cherwell lies the town of Kidlington . |
| 15 | Two : keep the car by paying the MGFV to Ford Credit . |
| 16 | Asher Edelman — the US corporate raider who has stalked the Bhs to Habitat group Storehouse — has run into big financial reversals on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 17 | Defeat could condemn the Robins to relegation . |
| 18 | Touchen End is a small hamlet that straddles the Bracknell to Maidenhead road . |
| 19 | The great American management buy-out has crossed the Atlantic to Britain . |
| 20 | From Middleton Bridge we followed the Rawthey to Brigflatts and sat in the garden in the sun , a black tulip growing solitary amongst the mass of wild flowers below one of the windows . |
| 21 | The March 31 elections which returned the PLA to power with an outright majority [ see p. 38160 ] did nothing to stem discontent . |
| 22 | Elections held on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , following a vote of no confidence in the minority government of the Social Democratic Party ( Partido Social Demócrata — PSD ) , returned the PSD to parliament with an outright majority ; the country 's first majority government since 1974 was subsequently formed on Aug. 17 , 1987 , by the Prime Minister , Aníbal Cavaco Silva . |
| 23 | RSVP sent letters to MPs , the National Farmers Union , asking for help in getting the NRA to back down . |
| 24 | Mark Pitman , who ended the five win run of Young Hustler when riding The Illywhacker to victory in the £25,000 Cavalier Chase at Worcester yesterday . |
| 25 | This , naturally , magnifies the impact on one-month delay in settling invoices is to lower the NPV from £0.1198 to £0.0759 , a reduction of 37% , while a prolonged two- month delay further lowers the NPV to £0.0328 , barely a quarter of the initial estimate . |
| 26 | The Roman Watling Street , which had become the London to Holyhead road , was vastly improved and largely remade by Telford between 1820 and 1828 . |
| 27 | Coleridge was in a state of profound happiness and lingering disbelief when he wrote to Robert Southey of the ‘ combination of curious circumstances ’ which had brought the Wordsworths to Alfoxden . |
| 28 | There is a lengthy signal in existence from the officer commanding the LRDG to Brigadier Davey at MEHQ which clearly illustrates the difficulties of communication and the clash of competencies . |
| 29 | You can take the Settle to Carlisle Railway with an exciting trip over the Ribblehead Viaduct . |
| 30 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |